Working with bilingual colleagues is always interesting. If anyone complains about a Chinese engineer's English, I always remind them that their English is often much better than our Mandarin. Over lunch the aforementioned phenomena is sometimes called Chinglish for "Chinese English" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinglish. I learned from Giri that there's a similar phenomena in India with "Hindi English" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinglish.

So much for firmware and lunch today. Good tidings and firmware writing.